What happened at Cornell University is not an aberration.
Last month, the Cornell Daily Sun reported on Jane Doe’s lawsuit against the university, which alleges that she was gang-raped at the Chi Phi Fraternity house in 2024 and that Cornell …
Bowdoin’s Office of Inclusion and Diversity (OID) started the Viewpoint Exchange series with the goal of “encouraging respectful engagement, expanded education and open dialogue” on wedge issues such as “antisemitism, Islamophobia and the ongoing conflict in the Middle East.” The …
The landscape of internships is rapidly changing. In 2023, according to the Business-Higher Education Forum, 8.2 million college students sought internships, but only 3.6 million students were successful. Different factors, such as grade inflation and a recent lack of …
This year’s Bowdoin Student Government (BSG) election results exhibit a sharp decline in voter turnout compared to prior years. Only 309 students voted in this election compared to 559 in 2025 and 792 in 2024, just over a 50 and …
Editor’s Note, Saturday, March 28 at 8:02 a.m.: A previous version of this article incorrectly stated that the Mitchell Institute announced a name change. The Mitchell Institute instead wrote that they planned to initiate a process to consider a potential …
Last Friday, Director of Residential Life (ResLife) SJ Tinker announced in an email to first-year Reed House applicants that the house would be closed for renovations during the 2026–2027 academic year. Over the next eight years, one College House will …
On Tuesday morning, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested a man on Union Street in Brunswick. Associate Vice President of Safety and Security Bill Harwood notified students via email of the arrest later that afternoon. The presence …
Last week, Senior Vice President and Dean for Student Affairs Jim Hoppe shared updates to the College’s policies on property use, freedom of expression and protests on campus following committee recommendations.
The College claims that it “firmly believes that the …
It’s 4 p.m., and the sun has set. The roads are icy, it’s quiet and you can feel the cold wind piercing through your L.L. Bean-branded fleece. That’s the nature of winters in Brunswick. During the semester, this atmosphere is …
Three hundred and seventy-seven days after Zohran Mamdani ’14 launched his bid for mayor of New York City, Bowdoin publicly acknowledged his victory. We, at The Bowdoin Orient, wish to go beyond acknowledgment.